From our good friend Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich: China’s embrace of Marxism is bad news for its people

Karl Marx is being celebrated by Chinese President Xi Jinping as the “greatest thinker of modern times.” Western academics are celebrating Marx as a historic critic of the modern world.

Yet what all the pro-Marxist, pro-socialist speakers ignore is the human cost of Marxism.

In the name of Marx, Vladimir Lenin established the Soviet Union as police state that killed millions. Josef Stalin succeeded Lenin as the Soviet leader and proved even more ruthless and committed to killing.

Adolf Hitler led the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party and socialism was central to his taking over the German economy and the German state – a fact the left makes every effort to avoid.

Mao Zedong was the deadliest Marxist of all and killed an uncounted number of millions to impose his will on China.

Fidel Castro turned a prosperous Cuba into a tragic police state in the name of Marxism-Leninism. And Venezuela has been shattered by socialism.

The academic left and its news media and Hollywood acolytes refuse to confront the horrifying record of Marxism’s endless inhumanity.

This would be a good year to begin educating all those who have been lied to as a result of the American academic infatuation with Marxism.

We need a TV series on Marxism (and its evolution through Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, etc.) so that Americans can come to grips with the horrors of centralized government and the cost of tyranny.

The desire of those with power to get more and more power seems insatiable.

Our Founding Fathers understood this and designed the Constitution to distribute power so no one person could establish a dictatorship. American exceptionalism is the opposite of Leninism.

Lenin used Marx’s analysis and rhetoric to justify establishing a secret police-controlled totalitarian system. Within a remarkably few years, he had centralized authority and begun to lock up, torture and kill his critics.

When Lenin died, Stalin took his system of centralized power and refined it with even more brutality. Literally millions were starved to death as a matter of policy to break the middle-class farmers.

As an example of the grip Marxism had on the American news media and intellectuals at the time, TheNew York Times reporter in Moscow conspired with other reporters to avoid covering the famine and the mass deaths. Diana West’s book “American Betrayal” cites the evidence of this deliberate coverup.

Left-wing American academics have always had a soft spot for Marxist regimes.

One of the most widely read economic textbook writers and the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics, Paul Samuelson, told college students in the 1961 edition of his best-selling “Economics: An Introductory Analysis” textbook, thatthe Soviet Union’s economy was growing faster than the U.S. economy (never true).

This incorrect information continued to appear in subsequent editions of the textbook for more than two decades. Today the left argues that Marxism didn’t fail in the Soviet Union – only the way the Russians tried to implement it failed.

In fact, I was told by someone who was at a dinner with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a group of academics that when one of them made that argument Gorbachev responded: “You would have to be an American professor to believe that.”

Hitler studied the Lenin-Stalin police state and modeled much of his own totalitarianism on their design. There was a lot of the KGB in the design of the Gestapo. The central power of the state and its authority over people was central to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao. The individual human disappeared in the search for historic power and control.

We are about to witness a fascinating experiment in whether combining Marxism with big data can work. Xi Jinping is implementing a system by which Chinese people are heavily surveilled and assigned citizenship ratings based on their social media activity, patriotism, productivity, fitness routines and other behaviors. Those with low scores can be barred from commercial flights, some trains, and from having their children enrolled in some schools.

Deng Xiaoping saved the Chinese communists from popular rejection by advocating a system of free enterprise within the communist structure after Mao’s death. He argued that unless the Chinese economy was dramatically improved, China would not prosper. Further, he understood that if the system didn’t reward the Chinese people, there would be a widespread rejection of the Communist Party.

In his famous Southern Tour of China in January and February of 1992, Deng made the case for free markets in which productivity – not politics – decided winners and losers.

Now Xi Jinping is reversing the market-oriented decentralization of Deng. As he made clear in his recent speech on Marx (have your web browser translate it), he regards Marx – not 18th century Scottish economist Adam Smith – as the central guide for China’s future.

If indeed Marxism has defeated Deng Xiaoping in the corridors of Chinese power, we are in for a terrible experiment in tyranny. I wrote about President Xi Jinping’s aggressive power gathering in China, in my new book, “Trump’s America: The Truth About Our Nation’s Great Comeback.” I will doubtless write more on this in future columns, but for the moment, simply note that no experiment in Marxism has come out well.

Centralized control leads people to lie and cheat. Lying and cheating leads to the leadership demanding more secret police with more rules and more punishment. The system becomes a downward spiral in which humans are sacrificed to the power of the few.

This is Marx’s legacy. President Xi should study it carefully before taking China off the path of economic growth and onto the path of tyrannical growth.

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Gen. Vallely: U.S. Now Dealing ‘Peace Through Strength’

By Bill Hoffman, Newsmax

President Donald Trump has put saber-rattling countries on notice, the United States is ready to use military action against its aggressors, retired U.S. Army Major General Paul Vallely told Newsmax TV.

“With his attack on a Syrian missile base and the dropping of ‘the mother of all bombs’ on Islamic State targets in Afghanistan, Trump has shown the U.S. is a strong nation once again,” Vallely said Monday.

“It’s a strong message that we have a strong president now where we’ve been void of any strength on the international scene for the last eight or nine years,” he told Bill Tucker on “America Talks Live.”

“It’s very important that our allies particularly see us – and any other nation in the world – as a strong nation now that is dealing peace through strength, and that’s a good message.”

Vallely, who chairs Stand Up America, which promotes the principles of America’s founding fathers – said he is impressed by Trump’s deployment of Vice President Mike Pence to address national security.

“President Trump is using the vice president in national security, probably more so than any other past administrations have done,” he told Tucker.

During a visit Monday to South Korea, Pence stopped at the demilitarized zone and warned North Korea the U.S. “era of strategic patience is over” in regard to its nuclear missile program.

“It’s great to get over on the DMZ and see exactly what the situation is. I think [National Security Advisor] Gen. McMaster and Vice President Pence are really saying the same thing,” Vallely said. “That this strategic patience and trying to work with the North Koreans and the Chinese on this has not gone well because North Korea has strengthened its nuclear missile capability.”

“We’ve been watching that for years, but no one’s ever taken any positive action…what is going to happen, though, if they are conducting a direct threat against the U.S. or its allies or the fleets, then we will take military action against them.”

Asked by Tucker if the United States risks taking on too many military engagements against its enemies, Vallely said: “I think you have to look in an analytical way and from the strategic position of the United States and the world. Really, you can identify the real threats on one hand.”

“It’s not like we have all these threats all over. We have them with Korea, we have ISIS, and we have Iran. Those are the primary threats.”

“So, from that standpoint, we can really focus on identifying those threats, adapting particular actions, strategic actions against each of those threats, and we can do it simultaneously if we have to.”

Gen. Vallely is the author of “Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror,” written with retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney and published by Regnery.

Berkeley Invites Ann Coulter

Berkeley Cancels Ann Coulter

Berkeley Invites Ann Coulter, But

By Ray DiLorenzo

Free speech is not merely under attack at Berkeley, the students are attempting to inflict a death blow. First Amendment? They will have none of it.

Ann Coulter, well known conservative speaker, was invited to Berkeley to speak on April 27th. Berkeley then announced arbitrary restrictions. She agreed. Berkeley then canceled her speech for ‘security’ concerns. She said she will appear anyway. Berkeley then said they will allow her to speak on May 2nd (when classes are out and no one is there). Coulter turned down the new date and repeated that she will speak on April 27th.

Coulter has dismissed security concerns as the reason for the cancellation. She labeled the protesters as “beta males” behind what could be “Rodney King riots” staged to protest a speech she has pledged to give next week at the University.

Ann Coulter suggested that Berkeley, if they wanted to, could merely announce that anyone engaging in violence, mayhem or disrupting an invited speaker’s speech will be expelled. They have not done so.

The fascists, that wear black masks, that call everyone who disagrees with them fascists, have, once again, proven that the First Amendment is only for the left and any Conservative need not expect the same rights because they are ‘fascists.’ Make sense? The students are so well ‘educated,’ they don’t even know what a fascist really is. It is worth mentioning that in prior riots, the Berkeley Police stood by and did almost nothing to stop the violence.

In February, masked rioters at the school smashed windows, set fires, and shut down an appearance by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Threats of violence cancelled a speech by writer David Horowitz. Writer Charles Murray’s appearance at Middlebury saw riots in March and Heather McDonald’s speech at Claremont McKenna College was streamed online this month after students blocked the door to the venue.

Howard Dean, former candidate for president, has said that “Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.” Who is to say what is hate speech? One person’s hate speech could be another person’s defense of liberty and justice. Dean obviously feels that his definition of hate speech is the standard, or is it Obama’s, or possibly Hillary Clinton’s or maybe Bernie Sanders’.

What are these students being taught? What indoctrination are these young people receiving that makes them become zombie-like followers of anarchy and tyranny? What education are they acquiring when they are closed to any opinion other than their own?

The students that take part in it, the University system that turns their back on it, the lawmakers that wink at it, and the police that allow it, must be stopped. It has gone on for far too long. If these students are our future, may God help us!

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Russia Moves Troops and Equipment to Border with N. Korea

Russia has moved heavy military equipment to its border with North Korea amid fears of a military clash over the North’s nuclear program. The U.N. Security Council has demanded an end to nuclear testing and said that “Pyongyang’s illegal missile activities were greatly increasing tension in the region and beyond.” North Korea’s intent is not to saber-rattle, but to eventually develop the capability to deliver a nuclear weapon, says Victor Cha, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Despite repeated international attempts to slow their progress through sanctions and diplomacy, they are well on their way. Telegraph, CNN

Editor’s note: We would not expect Russia to be a player. They are most probably just flexing muscle to show the world they are still a world power. We expect the players to be North Korea, South Korea and the United States with possibly some help from Japan. Russia has an 11 mile land border and a 12 mile maritime border. China is somewhat more unpredictable. Relations between China and North Korea started to sour in 2006 when the North began testing nuclear weapons. In spite of this, China still supports Pyongyang, probably for its buffer between China and the West. There are reports that China has moved 150,000 troops to the border with North Korea. If there was any action between North and South Korea, there would be thousands, if not millions of people looking to China for food and shelter. There are also reports that Hawaii is in the process of updating their emergency plans that includes restocking fallout shelters with food, water and necessary medical supplies.

Examining North Korea’s Missiles

Life Insurance for Jihad Terrorists?

Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota legislator from Somalia was one of two members of the Minnesota State House (both Democrats) to vote against a bill that would deny payments to the beneficiaries of terrorists who die in violent attacks on Americans. Jihad Watch

Editor’s note: Many Democrats have gone mad! Not because she is from Somalia, but because she thinks it’s perfectly acceptable for jihadists to buy life insurance, kill Americans in a terror attack with the jihadist assured that his/her family will be paid in case of their death. Ilhan Omar is a community organizer (another one?) that came to America as a refugee from Somalia. She was touted by Democrats as a model success story. The FBI has reported that at least 42 Somali refugees have left the United States to join jihadist groups overseas. Dozens of other Somali-Americans have been tried and/or convicted of providing material support to overseas terrorists.

Ilhan Omar

Justice Department Issues Warning to Sanctuary Cities

The Justice Department on Friday issued a formal warning to sanctuary cities asking for proof that they are cooperating with immigration enforcement, and indicating they are at risk of losing federal grants. The letters went to the California Department of Corrections as well as officials in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, New York and Cook County, Illinois.

Editor’s note: The left will resist. Seattle has already filed a federal lawsuit asking the court to declare that they can refuse to help federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.

DHS: Almost as Many Americans Died of Drug Overdoses in 2015 Alone as Combat Fatalities in 12 Years of the Vietnam War

John Kelly, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, blamed Latin American drug cartels for the unprecedented 52,000 plus overdose deaths in America during 2015, the latest year in which data is available. It’s the highest number of deaths the country has ever seen. Breitbart

Editor’s note: Yes, you can blame drug dealers, but they push an entire potpourri of drugs including marijuana. States that have legalized marijuana have told the rest of the country that recreational hallucinogenic drugs are acceptable, all while the potency of marijuana has increased a minimum of three times. Heavy marijuana use has been linked to mental disturbances including psychosis and schizophrenia. Chronic use also coincides with depression and anxiety.

Please don’t say that marijuana is safe and that it should be legal in all states. No one goes straight to heroin; they all start with marijuana. Do you think there is a connection between this legalization and the dramatic increase in heroin deaths?…duh! And all because the states want a cut of the action.

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New York Times = FAKE NEWS

New York Times Caught

The NYT was caught by the New England Patriots trying to push a story that the 2015 Patriots visit to the Obama White House was significantly better attended than the 2017 visit to the Trump White House. The top photo shows the New England Patriots in 2015 flanked by their staff and coaches.

In response to the story, the New England Patriots tweeted this:

“These photos lack context. Facts: In 2015, over 40 football staff were on the stairs. In 2017, they were seated on the South Lawn.”

Wiley Coyote refused to give up his seat on United and was booted from his plane over Atlanta’s I-20

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Liberals: Clever, But Oblivious – 4/15/17

Right on, Ray. Excellant article. SW From Canada Free Press reprint

Even spelling it out like this…Democrats still don’t get it! CK

“He (God) is before all things and by Him all things consist (held together).” As soon as they remove God, everything falls apart. No matter how intelligent, how educated they are. An ounce of arrogance will destroy a ton of intelligence.” AB From Canada Free Press reprint

So, how can we say liberals are intelligent if that’s how they behave? This is not the behavior of intelligent people. HW

Editor’s note: I believe the study was referring to capacity, not utilization.

Why do liberals still believe the “war on poverty” must be waged when after $20.7 trillion spent the last 50 years has produced no real reduction in poverty?

Why do liberals believe they have improved the lot of blacks when 50 years ago 25% of black children grew up in families without fathers and the percentage rate today is 72% (knowing single parent families nearly guarantee poverty)?

Why do liberals fail to understand they have destroyed the black family, destroyed black motivation, destroyed once strong black work ethic?

Why do liberals never discuss and/or undermine great black leaders such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglas when they argued that blacks must depend on self-reliance?

Why is it that black crime rates are 10 times that of whites and Hispanics and only account for 13% of the population?

Why do liberals decry black conservatives and treat them like runaway slaves?

Why do many liberals think Lincoln was a Democrat, that the KKK were Republicans, that Jim Crow laws were a Republican invention, that fail to realize the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was rejected by many Democrats, including Al Gore’s father?

I could go on and on. Liberalism is a mental and emotional problem that is far more concerned with the elevated effect it has on the carrier rather than the utility of the theory. RJD

Understand the weight of this image. This soldier lost both of his arms. The feeling of a handshake is lost to him. President Trump realized this, and thus touched his face so he can feel the human connection. He gave up a billionaire lifestyle so he could be insulted, dragged through the mud, and lied about on a daily basis. All to save the country and the people he loves.

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Important Quotes

“There are no foolish questions, and nobody becomes a fool until they stop asking questions.”

“Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.”

Charles Steinmetz

1865 – 1923

Charles Steinmetz stood four feet tall with a humped back. Now virtually unknown, he was a brilliant German mathematician and engineer in the 1890’s and early 1900’s. A devout socialist with capitalist tendencies, he had no problem charging huge fees for his services. A friend of Albert Einstein, he rode to work every day on a bicycle wearing a suit and a top hat. Steinmetz moved to America at age 24.

His work with electricity was monumental. His calculations and experiments allowed electricity to become safer, stable and more widely used.

Henry Ford enlisted his help with electrical problems, hiring Steinmetz to fix a troubled generator.

Steinmetz arrived without tools and began staring at and listening to the generator, doing it for two days. He finally climbed up a ladder and made a chalk mark on the side of the generator. He told Ford employees to replace certain parts at the chalk mark. The generator was fixed.

Henry Ford was happy, but almost fell on the floor when he got a bill for what he considered a simple task – $10,000. Ford, at first refused to pay, saying he wanted Steinmetz to itemize his bill.

Steinmetz did just that. He told Ford that the chalk mark was one dollar. The other $9,999 was for knowing where to put the mark.

A rare 1921 photo taken at a tour of an RCA wireless station in New Jersey. Steinmetz is in the middle with Albert Einstein to the left.

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Liberals

Clever, But Oblivious

Ray DiLorenzo

Among the great mysteries of the universe are questions the lucid among mankind have asked for generations…such as:

Why are liberals so enamored with Islam and so hostile towards Christianity? Islamists, if given the opportunity, would behead every godless liberal they found.

Why do liberals want to protect violent criminals and condemned prisoners, but are willing to kill the unborn right up to the time of birth?

Why do liberals want to apply socialist/communist ‘solutions’ to problems when socialism has never worked anywhere in the world at any time?

And the question of our time: Why do liberals want to admit unskilled illegal aliens, criminal or otherwise, without extreme vetting, into our country while turning away many would-be legals like scientists and engineers?

No one can deny that most true liberal believers are intelligent. But, something is missing. Liberals are intellect without discipline, without God, flashlights without batteries. As explained in Psychology Today (PT), they are “intelligent people that incorrectly apply abstract logical reasoning to social and interpersonal domains.”

PT further explains that the ability to think and reason evolved as a means to solve common problems such as parenting, personal relationships and social dealings, referred today as common sense. Everyone is equipped with common sense, but liberals have a tendency to “over apply their analytical and logical reasoning abilities, derived from their intelligence, incorrectly.”

Liberals feel in situations where they are supposed to think and think in situations where they are supposed to feel. For any given problem, the application of common sense to a liberal is just that…common. Many intelligent people, especially liberals, are anything but common. In many cases they refuse to apply common sense when their intellect says there is a ‘better’ way.

Liberals think they are being clever, when in actuality they are being oblivious to reality. If you disagree with them, they are convinced it is because you do not understand.

Liberals always prefer absurdly complex solutions to common sense solutions, displaying their intellect, their ‘god-like’ qualities, the more complex the better. So godlike, in fact, that true liberals have a terrible time believing in God, a being infinitely more intelligent than themselves, if that is possible.

Only a liberal would think that spending to prevent bankruptcy is smart. Only a liberal would think a ‘gun free zone’ would prevent criminals from carrying guns. Only liberals would require safe zones to protect themselves from common sense. Only a liberal would require 20,000 pages to cover a health care law that makes almost everyone unhappy.

What is so infuriating is that the ‘clever but oblivious’ have completely taken over the Democratic Party, the media and academia. It cannot be stressed strongly enough that we need to prevent liberals from entering government, education, the media and anywhere else they may affect other people’s lives. Liberals belong only on the stage, for the curious, not to be taken seriously. That is common sense.

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U.S. Preparing to Strike North Korea If Nuke Test Occurs?

An NBC report citing ‘military sources’ claims President Trump and senior military officials are preparing for a preemptive strike against North Korea if the country carries out another nuclear test. North Korea’s state broadcasters said they “would hit the U.S. first” with nuclear weapons at any sign of aggression or provocation. Satellite images suggest NK is preparing for its sixth nuclear test. Speaking on Wednesday, President Trump remained secretive about his plans to handle North Korea, although he did declare he was sending “an armada” into the region. Breitbart

Editor’s note: The responsibility for allowing North Korea to have nuclear weapons should be on the do-nothing United Nations and Presidents Bush and Obama. NK has been allowed to develop their nuclear weapons since 2006. What Trump has been left to deal with is a rogue, criminal enterprise close to fielding nuclear weapons that can reach the U.S. mainland. President Trump has found himself in his own Cuban Missile Crisis. Will Trump allow North Korea to make their nuclear program operational?

Two migrants have been given sentences of three and two-and-a-half years for beating a young Swede almost to death before violently raping his female friend. The government will try to deport only one of them temporarily (10 years). Three teenage girls and a male friend met for a party near Stockholm. One of the girls invited a 21-year old migrant from Liberia with whom she was acquainted. The man brought another friend with him from Kenya. Before long, the migrants started sexually harassing the girls. Matters quickly escalated with one of the migrants spraying the Swedish male with pepper spray and then both of them beating the Swede viciously, leaving him brain damaged. When one of the girls tried to intervene the Kenyan strangled her, threw her into a wall and “hurled” her onto the floor. The Kenyan then grabbed one of the girls, dragged her into a bedroom and raped her. She was also strangled with the Kenyan threatening to strike her if she screamed. The Liberian had a history of violent crime including theft, bodily injury, and resisting arrest. The Kenyan had raped another woman in May, 2016. Breitbart

Editor’s note: Liberals would probably be very understanding toward the Africans since they come from different cultures and were possibly, at one time or another, victims of racism.

Egyptian Security Forces Kill Seven Jihadists

Egyptian security forces killed seven jihadists on Monday who were planning more attacks on Christians and government targets. The raid came one day after 44 Christian worshipers were killed in twin bomb blasts during Palm Sunday services. President el Sisi praised the raid and said the jihadists were trying to divide the country. Townhall

Editor’s note: President el Sisi wants to ‘rebrand’ Egypt as a trusted, stable ally of the West.

Illegal Immigration Destroying Border Parklands

Illegal immigration and drug running have destroyed border parklands, further threatened two species on the endangered list and led federal officials to bar visitors and campers to areas considered too dangerous to visit. Washington Examiner

Editor’s note: Considering that liberals are supposedly environmentally-conscious, why are they not screaming out loud? We haven’t heard a thing.

New York Now Offers Free College Tuition

Hillary Clinton joined Governor Cuomo in celebrating the new law. Starting in the fall of 2017, any student from a family making less than $100,000 per year can qualify for free tuition. The threshold will rise to $125,000 in 2019. The stipulations are to maintain a minimum grade point average and commit to working in New York for a minimum of four years. Clinton called it “a great step for progressives.” CBS News, Breitbart

Editor’s note: The taxpayers must be thrilled to be getting another tax bill added to already some of the highest taxes in the country. I have a four year degree paid for by yours truly. Many student loans and a part-time job while carrying a full load in school did the trick. I guess that is now out of vogue.

Le Pen Campaign HQ Hit by Arson Attack

A building housing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s campaign headquarters was hit by an arson attempt on Thursday. The building received only minor damage. Breitbart

Editor’s note: Marine Le Pen is the anti-globalist, anti-EU candidate. She has been called the ‘Donald Trump of France.’ A group called ‘Fight Xenophobia’ claimed responsibility for the attack which was carried out with Molotov cocktails.

Prototype Border Walls Will Be Built Near San Diego

The federal government will test 20 different prototype border walls near San Diego according to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune. The test walls will be 30 feet high and 30 feet long. Funding will come from transferring funds from other parts of DHS. Breitbart

Editor’s note: President Trump says construction of the border wall could begin within months.

For The Record

What Americans Think of Abortion by Party and Religion

Editor’s note: According to Wm. Robert Johnson, as reported by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, roughly one-third of women will have an abortion during their reproductive life (2008). According to the University of Colorado, Boulder, between 40 – 60% will regret it, 55% expressed guilt, 36% had experienced sleep disorders, 44% complained of nervous disorders. 11% had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor.

The University of Otago in New Zealand finds, as reported in the British Journal of Psychiatry, that 85% of women who have had abortions have reported mental health issues as a result, including sorrow, sadness, guilt, regret, grief and disappointment. Of all the reasons a woman may have for an abortion, the University agreed that improving a woman’s mental health was certainly not one of them.

Many states have enacted their own restrictions in recent years. 27 states have mandatory waiting periods of one to three days for women seeking abortions.

From the study, it is obvious the more conservative and religious you are, the more likely you will question the morality of abortion in most cases.

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London Now Londonistan

423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches

Londonistan is being built on the sad ruins of English Christianity. The British have long ago abandoned their faith, with Islam filling the void. Parts of London are now seeing 50% Muslim populations. Gatestone Institute

Editor’s note: According to The Spectator, only two of the 1700 mosques in Britain follow the modernist interpretation of Islam compared with 56% in the United States. Once Islam reaches the majority in England (Muslim population will double in a decade), they will no longer tolerate any diversity or multiculturalism. When even a fraction of Muslims call for jihad, the peaceful Muslims become irrelevant.

Thousands of Muslims taking part in an outdoor service in Birmingham, England.

Percentage of Americans Who Say News Media is Biased

62%

(48% in 2003)

Gallup March 9–29

Comedy Break…Sort Of

What Say You?

Drain the Swamp, But First Clear the Fog – 4/8/17

“Ray, you forgot Hillary sold 20% of US radium to Russia without Congress approval, and doubled his speaking fees. Both belong in jail. Where were our congressmen?” BW

Editor’s note: I did not forget the sale of uranium to Russia. If I included just a small portion of what the Clintons did wrong or illegal, I would be writing a book, not an article. Thanks for the comment!

“Why has Trump kept Comey in place?

I don’t pretend to always understand him somehow as I despise Comey; it was bad enough he took money, but to me, the worst thing he did was ruin the FBI’s rep. I’d bet many good agents left the Bureau because how could they do their job effectively or put their lives on the line with a sleezebag in charge?

I’m just not understanding why he’s still there–maybe the agents get to use him as a punching bag–I can dream…” LL From Canada Free Press reprint

Received Meme – Photo of George Bush: “Remember when I said Iraq sent their chemical weapons to Syria? Can you hear me now? CD

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Important Quotes

“According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.”

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Drain the Swamp, But First Clear the Fog

Ray DiLorenzo

Washington, D.C. is a Hollywood fog machine, a city of muddy water, a place where answers to questions are head scratchers and smiles and cordiality earn Oscar nominations. President Truman said it well, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”

Democrats, aided by their many friends in the media, are not working toward good government. They are spending all of their time working toward bad government…trying desperately to de-legitimize President Trump any way they can.

Every media outlet, every poll, their very gut instinct, told Democrats they were going to win the presidential election. The fireworks display was moments from being lit. And, like spoiled children that didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas, they are inconsolable and determined to make those who would deny them pay the price.

In an effort to inject some common sense where none exists…the Democrats assert that Russia wanted Trump to win the election and therefore hacked away at making it happen. Why the heck would Russia want an unknown quantity in the White House, an enigma, a man who displays only a partial inkling as to what he would do in any given situation?

Clinton, on the other hand, has a long track record. It’s common knowledge that the Clintons are corrupt and have proven time and again that they can be bought. To Russia’s glee, Hillary would have continued America’s downward military, economic and moral decline while continuing to enrich themselves by selling access. Bill Clinton would continue to leave himself open to blackmail for his never ending sexual escapades.

The Clintons were never content being millionaires. They wanted to swim with the big fish, the billionaires.

It has been shown clearly that the DNC worked hard to make sure Hillary got the nomination, regardless of the crowds that Bernie Sanders gathered and the empty halls that Hillary produced.

Comes Susan Rice, the dependable liar whose story changes depending on what talking points she was given that morning, all with seemingly no shame… and the main stream media is still interested in what she has to say.

Lois Lerner, the IRS employee accused of targeting conservative groups, declared the Fifth Amendment when questioned by the House Committee on Oversight, was more than happy to leave the IRS untouched with her pension intact.

Loretta Lynch, Attorney General, the highest law enforcement officer in the country, had a private meeting with Bill Clinton while Hillary Clinton was being investigated…and we are to believe they only talked about family?

And let’s not forget FBI Director Comey, the political FBI director that has had his finger in the air for so long he’s developed fibromyalgia. Comey’s history shows he has been deeply involved in the big-money cronyism of Washington for many years. He ‘earned’ $6 million from Lockheed Martin in the same year Lockheed became a donor to the Clinton Foundation. Amazingly, Comey is still director of the FBI.

So many government employees have gotten away with so much that the people have become agnostic toward their government. No one is held accountable. Yes, drain the swamp, but let’s clear the fog so we can clearly see the swamp.

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World Leaders Praise Trump’s Syria Response

Trump staff being briefed on Syria airstrike

President Trump’s decision to launch an airstrike against the Syrian base, believed to be the source of the chemical weapons attack, drew widespread approval from European leaders who deemed the assault proportional and justified. Breitbart

Editor’s note: It has been reported late Friday morning that a Russian warship has entered the eastern Mediterranean, heading to the area where the two US destroyers launched their cruise missiles.

Truck Drives Into Crowd of People in Stockholm

A hijacked beer truck plowed into a crowd on a busy shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm, Sweden. Four people were killed and fifteen wounded in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack. One suspect is in custody as a person of interest. Yahoo News, Fox News

Editor’s note: ISIS has discovered an inexpensive and readily available form of terror…grab a car or truck and drive it into a crowd of people. Thousands more will die in Europe and the United States before it’s figured out that fundamentalist Islam and Western culture do not mix.

All DNC Staffers Fired

Tom Perez, Democratic National Committee Chairman, has asked for the resignation of all DNC staffers. The DNC, many say, has been going through a crisis of confidence and competence. NBC

Editor’s note: It is not terribly unusual for a new boss to want his own team, but the Democratic Party is not in a crisis of confidence. They are in a crisis of over-confidence and lack of message. From what we have seen thus far, Tom Perez is bringing the same worn message with new wrapping.

Egypt Now Knows How to Defeat ISIS: Defend Christians

Al Sisi has figured out that once ISIS is finished with Christians, they will turn to mainstream Muslims. Police used to watch at a distance Jihadist attacks on Christians, but no more. Al Sisi has come to realize that ISIS feels the same way about Muslims that do not adhere to their strict dogma as they do Christians. Observer

Editor’s note: The number of Christians in Egypt is about 9 million, the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Christians have been part of the Middle East since Jesus and Paul.

263,000 Jobs Created in March – More Than Expected

263,000 private sector jobs were created in March. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, commented: “Job growth is off to a strong start for 2017. The gains are broad based but most notable in the goods producing side of the economy including construction, manufacturing and mining.” Barron’s

Editor’s note: The largest increase came from goods producing at 82,000 jobs. It’s clear manufacturing is making a big comeback. The job boom keeps exploding.

NYPD Defies Mayor: No Sanctuary For Violent Illegal Aliens

Despite New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proclamation that New York City is a sanctuary city, the NYPD is alerting federal immigration officials about illegal immigrants facing criminal court appearances. Conservative Base, Daily Caller

Editor’s note: There is no love lost between Mayor de Blasio and his police department since he echoed the anti-cop rhetoric of President Obama. In December of 2014, the NYPD asked New Yorkers to dump de Blasio.

Illegal Immigration in March Lowest in 17 Years

The number of migrants crossing the border in March dropped to the lowest level in 17 years according to a leaked agency statement given to the Associated Press. Breitbart, AP

Editor’s note: Border crossings have dropped by at least 40% from January to February which has been called “unprecedented” by border officials. The Department of Homeland Security acknowledges that the number of illegal crossings has dropped significantly. President Trump has ordered an end to the “catch and release” policy. We’re in the process of getting control of our border once again.

U.S. Trade Deficit Falls by 10%

The U.S. trade deficit shrank by nearly 10% in February, indicating that the economy may be growing at a faster pace than many economists expected. The Trump administration made the trade deficit one of their central economic goals. Breitbart

Editor’s note: How refreshing to see promises being kept!

ISIS Burns To Death Nine Including Children

Islamic State militants have burned to death nine civilians, including children, for attempting to escape the group’s strongholds in Kirkuk. They were charged with “abandoning the land of the caliphate.” Iraqi News

Editor’s note: ISIS has executed over 100 civilians for attempting to flee the Islamic State in western Mosul since last Friday. ‘Abandoning the land of the caliphate’ is a common charge levied against people escaping the Islamic State. These ‘people’ are worse than animals. They are soulless, inhuman zombies only wanting to feed. Obama showed no interest in defeating ISiS, only ‘containing’ them.

Hypocrisy On Parade

Senator Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren (D-MA), in an amazing display of hypocrisy, is reportedly paying the women in her office 29% less wampum than the men in her office. Warren, who called Trump an “insecure money-grubber”, is worth about $9 million. She made much of her money by loaning money to relatives at high interest rates and buying foreclosed properties at bargain prices and then flipping them for triple digit profits. Fox News, Washington Examiner. Facebook

Editor’s note: In an impassioned speech in 2016, Warren complained that women make only 79.6% of what men make, yet she pays the women in her office only 71% of what men in her office make. It seems she’s pretty conservative with her wampum, but very liberal with ours.

Say What?

MSM Call Rice Criticism Sexist, Racist.

Chris Mathews, host of Hardball [softball to Democrats] and Mother Jones bureau chief, David Corn, blasted Republicans for their sexist and racist coverage of Susan Rice because she “never did anything wrong.” Fox News, Newsbusters

Editor’s note: Amazing…the MSM already knows the answers. If you ask them how they know, they would probably say, “Well, they told us they never did anything wrong.” Susan Rice, it seems, cannot tell the truth. She has allowed herself to be the whipping boy, girl, woman, whatever for anyone that needs cover. According to Democrats and the media, you cannot assess, criticize, denounce, blame, or chide women, blacks or illegal aliens, criminal or otherwise, unless of course they are conservative.

In Case You Missed It

The Nuclear Option

The Nuclear or constitutional option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the U.S. Senate to override a rule or precedent by a simple majority vote of 51 votes, instead of a supermajority of 60 votes.

Congratulations to Justice Gorsuch

Sailboat Capsizes into Redondo Beach Pier, CA

Editor’s note: Having been a yachtsman, stay the heck away from piers or any solid immovable object you can’t or have no intention of docking to, especiallyif they are in strong surf or unprotected waters.

Comedy Break…Sort Of

What Say You?

What To Do About Sanctuary Cities – 4/01/2017

“Always fine reading!!!” #33

“Let ’em live with the consequences. The baddies will travel from sanctuary to sanctuary to inflict their harms.” Jim

“Simple, make it a crime that can actually be prosecuted, and one of the penalties is to be removed from office.” T

“Quite bold claims with statistics that were pulled from where exactly? Is that why they smell so bad?” AM from Canada Free Press reprint

Editor’s note: I suggest you re-read the article. The sources are listed.

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What To Do About Sanctuary Cities

“Where law ends, tyranny begins.”

President James Monroe

Ray DiLorenzo

The problem of sanctuary cities is no longer a social issue, it is now firmly a public safety issue – a public safety issue ignored by many cities.

Criminal alien crime is at levels never before seen. The states, in cooperation with the mainstream media, are satisfied to leave the public ignorant as to the extent of the problem. Many in the MSM don’t even allow the term ‘illegal immigrant’ to appear in print. Most states do not publish stats nor does the media report on illegal alien crime lest it becomes heated conversation at the dinner table. The stats are out there, waiting to be released or dug out of hiding.

Victims and families of alien crime have been forced into the shadows; their personal tragedies are forever silenced because of political correctness, political expediency and special interests.

We were able to dig these facts out:

In just one week in February, ICE tried to deport around 3,000 illegal aliens convicted or arrested for crimes. ICE only asked to have the inmates held for 48 hours until ICE could reclaim the inmate for deportation.

Fox News recently reported that ten cities released about 600 inmates, refusing to cooperate with federal authorities. The top five are:

Los Angeles – 162

New York – 73

Kern County, CA – 65

Clark County, NV (Las Vegas) – 54

San Diego County – 44

The crimes associated with these illegal aliens are:

Assault

Domestic Violence

Burglary

Robbery

DUI

Drug Possession

In many states, illegal alien crime accounts for over 30% of murders. To illustrate how bad the problem is:

Between 2008 – 2014, 40% of all murder convictions in Florida were criminal aliens. New York was at 34%, Arizona at 18%.

During those years, criminal aliens accounted for 38% of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, and New York. In Texas, illegal aliens account for an average of 472 murders per year.

38% represents 7,085 murders.

The murder rate by criminal aliens is typically 3X the illegal population.

Note: About 90% of incarcerated criminal aliens are illegal aliens. Stats are from the Government Accountability Office.

This is a Constitutional rights and public safety issue. By picking and choosing which laws to accept, lawmakers are promoting anarchy. People are being killed, robbed and assaulted. The citizenry has a right to be protected, feel secure in their homes, on the streets and in public places.

Even a Los Angeles Times columnist, George Skelton, published a column Thursday morning in which he marveled that Democrats in the California State Legislature cannot bring themselves to ensure the deportation of violent illegal alien felons.

Mr. Skelton noted that Democrats wouldn’t even consider “perfectly sensible” Republican bills to go forward that allow – not require – local law enforcement to contact federal immigration officials if they were about to release an illegal alien who had already served a previous sentence. Fox News, Breitbart

The controlling Democrat elites and those who follow them are as dangerous as street criminals or Islamic terrorists. By harboring these criminals, they have become accessories to the murders, assaults, burglaries, robberies, drug possession crimes and drunk driver accidents. Just last week in Ohio, a drunk illegal alien struck a car killing the three people inside.

We have a political party that thinks more highly of their interests in protecting undocumented workers than in upholding the laws they took an oath to enforce. Many of these state and city governments have become corrupt criminal organizations. Their leaders should be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). It would certainly be a new application of the act, but these state and local governments could be argued as being corrupt organizations.

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Here Comes the Judge!

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox’s Senior Legal Analyst, is back on the air! The judge was removed from the lineup after he claimed that President Obama surveilled Trump Tower, as told by reliable sources. The judge stands behind his claim. “…the American public needs to know more about this rather than less..” Yahoo, RedState

Editor’s note: Even for the short time the Judge was off the air, he was sorely missed. Welcome back, Judge!

Swedish Feminists Flee Suburbs

Feminists in Stockholm are leaving areas like the migrant-heavy, no-go zones of Husby and Tensta because they say that Islamic fundamentalists have taken over and now rule those areas.

Editor’s note: An American filmmaker, Ari Horowitz, was attacked in Husby last year during an investigation into Swedish no-go zones. A Norwegian film crew was attacked in May attempting to interview Swedish economist and author Tino Sanandaji. No-go zones represent an unspoken admission by Muslims that they have no intention of assimilating.

Education – Yes, Common Sense – NO

In a 60 Minutes Sunday report, the popular news show admits that the audience for “fake news”, tailored to the left, is mostly “affluent and college educated.” Breitbart

Editor’s note: To the modern college student immersed in liberal ideology, this is no surprise. There are only a relatively few independent thinking students today. The rest will happily follow the Pied Piper over the cliff.

Two State Solution?

A million dollars has been raised to cover the cost of putting it on the ballot for 2018. Fox News

Editor’s note: West California would probably start life in the red, a deep red.

Organizer of Women’s March Stripped of Citizenship–Deported

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh, an organizer of a Day Without a Woman has been deported in exchange for no jail time for failing to disclose the conviction on her U.S. Visa application. The 69-year old Palestinian activist was convicted in the 1969 supermarket bombing in Israel that killed two Hebrew University students. She served ten years and was released after a prisoner exchange. Washington Times, Canada Free Press

Editor’s note: This is another example of the people the left is willing to align themselves with to further their agenda.

Rasmea Odeh spent 10 years in prison for her part in 2 terrorist bombings.

Ford Motor Company Jobs in Michigan

Ford will invest $1.2 billion to build or modernize three facilities in Michigan. President Trump tweeted “Car companies coming back to U.S. JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!.” Washington Times

Editor’s note: Although expansion planning takes years, it’s odd that all these manufacturers have been making their final decisions and announcments these last few months. Could it be they see a favorable business climate on the horizon? CNN reported in January, 2017 that Ford was cancelling a Mexico plant creating 700 new jobs in the U.S.

Nutty Professor Wants To Vomit When People Respect Military

Drexel University professor, George Ciccariello, mocked the Armed Forces by tweeting, “Some guy gave up his first-class seat for a uniformed soldier. People are thanking him. I’m trying not to vomit or yell about Mosul.” This man also tweeted in December that all he wanted for Christmas was white genocide…and he teaches politics and global studies to college students. Tea Party.org, Daily Wire

Editor’s note: Yes, we have freedom of speech. But, along with that freedom comes responsibility. Should we allow college professors and instructors to vigorously teach hate? This man is certifiable. He belongs on a soap box, not in any teaching institution. Brian Satterfield, a Villanova University Faculty Associate said it well, “The faculties of universities across the country are 95% liberal. They view free speech as the enemy of moral truth [their moral truth]… It has to be tamped down.” Actively teaching hatred of country and our institutions to young impressionable minds should be considered a national security issue, no different than a mosque teaching hatred of anyone who has different beliefs. Shame on Drexel!

Say What?

“Terror attacks are part of living in a big city.”

Sadiq Khan, London Mayor

Warning: To the liberal, this short article will be politically incorrect.

Where are the ‘stiff upper lip’ Londoners I’ve often read about? Where is the British bulldog mentality? Where are the people that stared Adolf Hitler down until he blinked?

Now, you get attacked again and we see tea lights, heart-felt speeches, flowers and a moronic mayor that tells you to get used to it. It’s no different than the Minoans dancing around a bonfire hoping to make the evil spirits go away.

Like so many other cities in Europe and the United States, London, apparently, has been taken over by snowflake liberals. Their willingness to ‘walk the plank’ to prove their moral superiority is dimwitted and suicidal.

The enemy’s tactics have changed, but the goal remains the same…our demise. The freedoms we enjoy in the West are being used against us, but too many are in denial. They refuse to see the obvious. It goes against everything their whiny liberal teachers taught them.

It is true that not all Muslim immigrants are jihadis, but enough of them are jihadis to pose a real threat to the existence of Western civilization. As we speak, Islamists in Europe are building parallel societies. Monsignor Carlos Libertate, in Rome, said in January that, “In ten years the entire European continent will be Islamic.”

Europe is experiencing a slow death by an enemy with patience and perseverance.

European leaders have now achieved the height of absurdity. They haven’t figured out yet that they are under a surreptious attack with thousands of Islamists waiting for orders. The free flow of blood is no impediment to them. Being pacifist, offering a flower or insisting all cultures are equal will not change the enemy’s objective.

Breitbart, Christian Today, Arutz Sheva, The Times of Israel

In Case You Missed It

States With Most Births Paid by Medicaid

Medicaid (taxpayer) now pays for 50% of births in the United States with New Mexico leading at 72% of all births

Nevada is at 64%

Louisiana at 65%

Wisconsin at 64%

Arkansas at 67%

Mississippi at 64%

Kaiser Family Foundation

Approximately 75 million people are now on Medicaid…

a totally unsustainable program either by design or stupidity, but probably both!

Our leftist politicians have successfully created a nation of dependents and are working at breakneck speed toward the United Socialist States of America, and what is worse, they are no longer hiding it. It is no mystery why, to them, Trump is enemy #1.

Comedy Break…Sort Of

Total shot in Chicago this year – 733, killed 133

What Say You?

What To Do About Trump – 3/25/2017

“I am all for investigating any ties with Russia by our officials. Let’s start with Hillary giving 20% of our uranium to Russia and where did she put the payoff? When do we get around to investigating the Clinton Foundation? Is Comey owned by the Clintons since he received millions from the foundation? Is Comey in fear for his life since he knows better than anyone the unsolved murders around the Clintons?” PBE

“I enjoy reading every word. Thank you.” UB

“Yes Paul, the “Legislative branch has become dysfunctional” but both houses are under Republican control.” TT

Editor’s note: Yes, the Republicans control both Houses and that certainly presents its own set of problems, but Democrats are determined to place roadblocks at every turn. They no longer present even the resemblance of bi-partisonship, all for the privilege of hating Trump.

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Timeless Quotes

“I give my head, my heart, and my life to my God and one nation indivisible with justice for all.”

Editor’s note: Contractors began working on four classrooms of Emerson High School in Oklahoma. They knew their remodel would improve education but they never expected it would impact local history. Looking to upgrade the rooms with new whiteboards and smartboards, they removed the old chalkboards only to find another set of chalkboards underneath, untouched for almost 100 years, dated November 30, 1917. This is part of what they found: